

PENTANDIIIA MONOGYNIA. 59 



origin of which we have in the following complimentary 

 lines of SHAKSPEARE to our good Queen BESS. 



" I saw 



Flying between the cold moon and the earth 



Cupid all armed : a certain aim he took 



At a fair vestal, throned by the west ; 



And loosed his love-shaft smartly from his bow, 



As it would pierce a hundred thousand hearts : 



But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft 



Quench'd in the chaste beams of the wat'ry moon ; 



And the imperial votress passed on, 



In maiden meditation, fancy-free. 



Yet marked I where the bolt of Cupid fell : 



It fell upon a little western flower, 



Before milk-white ; now purple with love's wound, 



And maidens call it Love-in-idleness. 



Fetch me that flower; the herb I shew'd thee once; 



The juice of it on sleeping eye-lids laid, 



Will make or man or v/oman madly doat 



Upon the next live creature that it sees." 



5. V. lutea^ stem triangular, unbranched ; leaves ovate-oblong, 

 erenate, fringed; stipulas lobed, palmate; bracteas minute, 

 scarcely toothed ; spur the length of the calyx. Yellow Pansy. 



Hab. " About two miles south of Fastcastle," Lightfoot. 

 Plentiful on the banks just above Fastcastle. May 

 Sept. 7/ 



72. VERBASCUM. 



1. V. Thapsus, stem simple; leaves decurrent, erenate, woolly 

 on both sides ; flowers in a dense cylindrical cluster, almost ses- 

 sile, golden yellow. Great Mullein. 



Hab. " On the bed of Till, near Wooler," Winch. July, 

 Aug. <J 



2. V. nigrum-) leaves oblong-heart-shaped, stalked, waved and 

 erenate, slightly downy ; flowers in a long mostly solitary clus- 

 ter, bright yellow, the filaments densely clothed with violet- 

 coloured hairs. Black Mullein. 



Hab. Waste ground at Ord, probably an outcast of the 

 garden, but observed there for many successive years. 

 July, Aug, 11 



